A list of lists

There are, here on the Type ID Board, some recurring requests, which often haven’t a definitive answer or, being custom work, are followed by questions about available alternatives.
After the n-nth request, someone (usually Florian ;-) compiles a list of fonts in that particular style.
But these useful lists get buried under the subsequent hundreds of similarly “Please ID this font”-titled threads, making it difficult to find and refer to them.
So, here I would like to compile a list of such lists, with proper descriptions, for easier access and discoverability.

Florian, you picked the two Font ID Guides that I would also have called illustrated lists: Lined Fonts and Bauhaus-style.

I would also suggest that the Serif Font ID Guide has usefulness as a variety of illustrated lists related to Serif fonts: you can show all fonts by a particular designer, from a particular foundry, or with certain structural features, such as crossed W, M's with no top serifs, and g's with open bowls ( to name just a few lists that could be displayed).

Craig,
yes, if you want to, feel free to transfer these lists to the Typowiki. The reason why I didn’t do that myself is that I don’t see much benefit, except that maybe it is easier for others to add to the lists. Most of these lists were created ad hoc, by and for the members of the Type ID Board. I don’t want this to become bureaucratic, and to argue with others whether the lists were academic/complete/useful enough to be included in the Typowiki – which, by its encyclopedic nature, is regarded as a place that is a little more formal and authoritative than the quick notes and comments in the threads. Nor do I want to keep them tidy (or even restore them), after they eventually get vandalized. Still, some of them (optical sizes, grades) are predestined to become a helpful Wiki entry.

Mike,
true, your Bowfin Printworks website holds a lot more information and tools that are of great use to typeface IDers. Thank you for providing and maintaining it! Your Script ID Guide is one of my favorite ID resources.
This brings us to the question what the focus of this thread should be: Ready-made lists (be they curated or collectively compiled, illustrated or not) only, or rather all kinds of ID resources? The Serif Font ID Guide can be used to create lists, but it is more a filter tool, like Identifont’s ‘by appearance’ questionnaire, or MyFonts’ Advanced Search that lets you create a list of scripts by Matthew Carter, for example.

Thank you all for the additions! :-)
I’m with Florian about the extemporaneous nature of these lists and that just few would be really wiki material.
(Plus, as Craig notes, they will need to be linked here anyway, because wiki entries aren't really discoverable.)

About FontShop’s FontLists: they’re indeed useful (and decidedly an inspiration for this very thread). There often is a thread which starts from one of these and adds to them, for example:

Another less, if ever, used external resource would be MyFont’s Albums (example: http://new.myfonts.com/users/dtk5k4mb2g/albums/207781/). Admittedly, the fact that they’re less curated, make them less useful.
And they share the same shortcoming of FontShop’s lists: being limited to one retailer offerings.

Sans-serifs with small cap figures, started by R.
Small cap figures are lining at x-height. This list narrows it down further to fonts with a wide language support (CE, Turkish)
Keywords: small caps, figures, sans-serif, tabular, proportional

How about we actually come up with semantically informative names (categories), as opposed to clever band names? Rhetorical question: To a newb, who is this “Steven” guy? That’s not very helpful (the section name, not Steven. He actually introduced me to Mike Parker. Thank you for that. You’re right, Mike tells great stories.).

riccard0 raised a good point, but there is another aspect that people seem to be overlooking.

We can easily make a (Wiki?) section with categories and examples. Just like FontShop’s category section which we can update over time. However, people will still post in the ID section, and end up getting buried list-like responses.

Solution?

A single new board for “What are some fonts similar to this?” requests. This removes them from the ever-burying ID board. Then, on the afore mentioned “Similar” board, more experienced Typophiles can simply point the poster to the correct Wiki section. Problem solved.

And there’s a hidden bonus to this solution: If, in the initial post there is an actual ID request, and, it gets solved (followed by list-like responses, the initial problem statement), then, the ID can be added to the Wiki. Now, the Wiki grows on its own!

Remember, people will always be posts on the wrong boards. There’s nothing we can do to prevent this 100%. This issue can only be addressed through moderation, and moving threads.